bonnier

\bɔ.nje\

/\bɔ.nje\/ noun

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The verdict

“bonnier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,611. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,611
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure de terre en Belgique valant 1,40 hectare en Hainaut, 87,18 ares en Principauté de Liège et de 94 ares 62 dans les Comtés de Namur et de Luxembourg.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bonnier · bonnier · French

bonnier · rank #46,611 · 8 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,611
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bondés

Nearest frequency peer: bondés (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonnier »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bonnier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bonnier vs Bosnie
57% similar
bonnier vs bouvier
71% similar
bonnier vs bonne
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bonnier
PropertyValue
Headwordbonnier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔ.nje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#46,611
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bonnier »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bonnierse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bondés » (#46,610), « bonshommes » (#46,612), « Blaye » (#46,609). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bonnier » est au #46,611. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around bonnier (IPA \bɔ.nje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,611 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bonnier, with forms such as "bbonnier", "bnonier", and "bonier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Bosnie", "bouvier", "bonne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bonnier, spelled B-O-N-N-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne mesure de terre en Belgique valant 1,40 hectare en Hainaut, 87,18 ares en Principauté de Liège et de 94 ares 62 dans les Comtés de Namur et de Luxembourg.
  2. 2
    Ancienne mesure de terre en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas valant officiellement 1 hectare (établi en 1816, sous le régime hollandais), supprimée en 1927 aux Pays-Bas.
  3. 3
    Borne ou pierre servant de limite.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bonnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. BONNIER, en hollandais et en flamand bunder. Mesure agraire ou de superficie usitée en Hollande et en Belgique. La plupart des dictionnaires francais écrivent bonier, mais nous croyons que l’usage, suivi généralement en Belgique, où cette mesure est particulièrement connue, doit seul faire loi, et qu’il faut en conséquence écrire bonnier. […] Bruxelles. L…
  2. […] Messire Charles de Lannoy, Chlr Sr d’Outrebeke, présent et acceptant laditte terre et seigneurie d’Espiere, consistante en seize bonniers de fief tant terres que prêt, soixante sept chapons les trois quart d’un, une glainne, vingt poullets ou pouchains, un pain, un hostel de bled, septante une rasières sept havot et demy, le tiers d’un havot d’avoine,…

This word in other languages

bunder(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbonnier
  • bnonier
  • bonier
  • boniner
  • bonneir
  • bonnierr
  • bonnire
  • obnnier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bonnier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbonnier1bnonier2bonier1boniner2bonneir2bonnierr1bonnire2obnnier2
Edit distance from "bonnier"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bonnier"?
"bonnier" is spelled B-O-N-N-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ.nje\.
What does "bonnier" mean?
As a noun, "bonnier" means: Ancienne mesure de terre en Belgique valant 1,40 hectare en Hainaut, 87,18 ares en Principauté de Liège et de 94 ares 62 dans les Comtés de Namur et de Luxembourg.
What words are commonly confused with "bonnier"?
"bonnier" is commonly confused with "Bosnie", "bouvier", "bonne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bonnier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bonnier" is \bɔ.nje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bonnier" come from?
"bonnier" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bonnier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

booking#46,613blasons#46,608Bertram#46,607Bellini#46,605

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Beaujeu8 variantsbéant8 variantsArmelle8 variantsargilo8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list